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Ashley Norris

@ashleyrhys.bsky.social
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Film lover, sometimes writer, mostly whinger. Game Dev. Welshman in Germany. Views my own, unfortunately. He/him

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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Depressing to see no one learn how to a) combat hateful populism, b) these anti-establishment folks are the establishment and c) other countries never get better with arseholes like this in. History repeats itself. People can’t imagine life better for them so want it worse for others. Sigh.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fifth Gamescom done. First time doing a booth. Devs can drink. I am a shell.
Flight of Kölsch as is tradition
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Who can ever resist something like this? Went purely on instinct to avoid any overthinking so it’s a rough ride. boxd.it/WOgNQ
boxd.it
Top 100 Favourites of the 21st Century
Well everyone else is so I can’t resist jumping on in.  In no particular order.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For the love of god, what do we have to do to get people to stop holding lapel mics in videos? What’s the price? Where are the protests? How did we get here? Who’s responsible? I want NAMES.
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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I still have to check IMDb before I watch any new movie to make sure James Corden is not in it.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bangover. Voice still six octaves lower. Boiled alive. Take me back to Outbreak.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jon Champion going through a divorce or something? Weird comments throughout.
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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi, the artist, creator and director behind the Oscar-nominated Persepolis and many other works, has sadly passed away. filmstories.co.uk/news/in-memo...
filmstories.co.uk
In memoriam: Marjane Satrapi, author, artist and filmmaker
Marjane Satrapi, the artist, creator and director behind the Oscar-nominated Persepolis and many other works, has sadly passed away.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It’s Always Sunny The Wire BoJack Horseman Barry Curb Your Enthusiasm Arrested Development Perp Show Succession The Sopranos The Rehearsal Taskmaster Malcolm in the Middle The Office (US) Breaking Bad Schitt’s Creek
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Er gwaetha pawb a phopeth, ry’n ni’n yma o hyd.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pollock 🤫
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Keith Calder @keithcalder.com · 06/02/2026
hack the gibson hackers-1995.vercel.app
hackers-1995.vercel.app
Hackers ( 1995 ) - David Vidovic - Animated Experience
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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 06/01/2026
One of the giants of modern European cinema has fallen. RIP Hungarian maestro, Béla Tarr. Damnation, Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Turin Horse… to have made just one of these extraordinary films would have been a life's work completed.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
There’s going to be three companies left in America at this rate.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Not to bang on the ol’ cinema etiquette drum, but couldn’t resist the special case today of someone bringing and using their fucking laptop?!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/11/2025
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
a Verge headline: The algorithm failed music

Illustration: A colorful waveform starts to pixelate
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Robert Redford had a long and storied career, the kind of episodic tale Robert Caro might write about, and you're going to hear all about it today. Rightly so. That said I'll just contribute that it's one of man's great ambitions to make it to 89 with unbelievable hair and god dammit he did that.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/04/2025
A lot of mediocre middlemen who only care about numbers have long insisted on their necessity as gatekeepers between art and commerce, but the real truth of it all is that smart creative people who just want to make cool shit also happen to be very good at making cool shit that people want to buy.
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Oscar Zeta Gundam @lmfsilva.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A lot of the problems in the world can be traced back to numbers people slowly replacing people skilled and experienced in their area of business at the decision level because line going up became the product, not what they *actually* do, and you see some guys with really weird corporate histories.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/04/2025
getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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jamsheed @jamsheed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
a nice side effect of No Other Land winning an oscar is that the worst people on earth are incredibly mad about it.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Predictions for tonight’s Oscars in blue. My preferences in pink, where appropriate.
Letterboxd Oscar prediction sheet filled out. 

Actor: Adrien Brody in The Brutalist (Colman Domingo in Sing Sing) 
Actress: Demi Moore in The Substance (Mikey Madison in Anora) 
Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain (Yura Borisov in Anora) 
Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldana in Emilia Perez (Ariana Grande in Wicked) 
Animated Feature: Flow (The Wild Robot) 
Animated Short Film: Magic Candies
Cinematography: The Brutalist (should be Nickel Boys really, but Nosferatu of the nominees) 
Costume Design: Wicked (Nosferatu) 
Directing: Sean Baker (Anora) 
Documentary: Porcelain War (No Other Land) 
Documentary Short: I Am Ready, Warden
Film Editing: Conclave (not nominated, again, Nickel Boys or Sing Sing) 
International Feature: I’m Still Here (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) 
Makeup: The Substance (Nosferatu) 
Original Score: The Brutalist (The Wild Robot) 
Original Song: El Mal - Emilia Perez (no clue on this honestly) 
Production Design: Wicked (Dune: Part Two) 
Short Film: Anuja 
Sound: Dune: Part Two (Wicked)
Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two
Adapted Screenplay:  Conclave (Sing Sing) 
Original Screnplay: A Real Pain 
Best Picture: Anora (The Substance or Nickel Boys; Sing Sing should have been nominated!)
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It has come to my attention that not nearly enough of you know about Bernd das Brot, the German children's program about a clinically depressed loaf of bread who enjoys studying his wallpaper and eating gruel and whose catchphrases include "my life is hell" and "I would like to leave this show."
An anthropomorphic loaf of bread with bulging eyeballs and hands that grow directly out of his body, next to his mouth, and look oddly human except that there are only four fingers. The photo is good but I must implore you to check out the video.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Bitteschön, Deutschland, don’t do this. Not again. I don’t want to leave.
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Peter Avellino @peterapeel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
At least we have this photo of David Lynch and Billy Wilder.
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad? a guy wanted to get richer What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Joining in with 2024 films ranked. Film viewing still down the last couple of years, but steadily climbing again. Missed many things I wanted to see but we’ve got next year. And the year after. That’s probably it then though.
2024 films in ranked order. 

Hit Man
The Substance
Fall Guy
The Holdovers
Dune: Part Two
Smile 2
Furiosa
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The First Omen
Longlegs
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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
My favourite movies of the year: 25 discoveries, six old favourites, six calamities, six re-evaluations, five obsessions. Feat. Margaret Sullavan, John Hughes, Denzel, Basic Instinct, a noir about Satan, a British late-silent... oh all sorts, really. advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2024/12/Film...
advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com
Review of 2024: Part 2 – Movies
Here's part two of my review of the year, focusing on FILMS. The format: 25 'discoveries', six old favourites, six stinkers, six movies re-a...
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Ed Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Favorite Steven Seagal (true) story: A writer goes in to meet with him and he’s behind his desk crying. “Are you okay?” the guy asks. “I just read the greatest screenplay I’ve ever read in my life,” says Seagal. “Who wrote it?” the guy asks. To which Seagal replies: “Me.”
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Completed FFVII: Rebirth. Here comes the emptiness after finishing a game. Hope it takes home GOTY. Insanity that’s only two of the four discs from the original. How they’re going to fit the rest of the world (and current) into the third is beyond me, but I’ll be there day one.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Still alien to see my name in the credits of my first video shoot. It’s like an intense fever dream. Got the bug again. Get me back on set!
Me and the crew with Post Malone. Credits. Interview: Post Malone and Scott Lussier. 

Producer: Ashley Rhys Norris. 

Producer: Tess Park. 

Producer: Aris Stoulil.
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Felt good to submit to the Nicholl again after nine years. Let’s see if I can do better than last time.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Judas 1991 years ago today:
Jeremy Paxman on University Challenge with the subtitles ‘Well, bad luck, Jesus.’
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Why?
Stubborn wire haired dachshund lays on the floor in the sun next to his bed instead of in the sun in his bed.
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
No YOU bought a PS5 for FF7: Rebirth.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
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Ashley Norris @ashleyrhys.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
2023. I went outside.
Maastricht Bonnefanten museum. Stills of missing people across the world and last place they were seen.Madrid streets at sunset.Segovia aqueduct.Sunset in the garden.
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thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
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